1. SOS Children’s Villages of India Udayan Care Conference (18-19 March2016)

2. Whatever their circumstances…helpless…abandoned…homeless… with no one to call their own – when children come home to a SOS Village, they are brought up in an environment close to a normal family.

3. SOS –India Filling a need
20/05/2018
SOS –India Filling a need
Our Vision
Every child belongs to a family & grows with love, respect & security
Our Mission
We build families for children in need, we help to shape their own futures, and we share in the development of their communities
out-of-home family-based care
prevent children from losing parental care
SOS Children’s Villages
Family Strengthening 3

4. SOS India-National Foot Print
Today we are a network of 32 children’s villages
Where 6,600 children are growing up
We also reach out to 24,000 children through our family strengthening program

5. Program Interventions
Within programs concrete responses are made through three types of Interventions
Direct Essential Services - which are made available to fulfil the child’s survival, development, protection and participation rights
Capacity building –to support care givers, families, communities and other duty bearers to develop knowledge, skills, resources, systems and structures to protect and care for children
Advocacy- actions aim to improve the overall framework conditions for the children of our target group by bringing about changes in policies and programs that undermine their rights

6. Key elements of our FBC work
Individualized care plan for each child
-Child development plan
Stable trained care giver which helps in building lasting relationships
Provides opportunity for growth and development of each child according to his/her potential
Siblings entrusted in our care stay in the same family homes
Provides care beyond eighteen years

7. Continuum of care – beyond 18 yrs.
After Care Program
The After care program beyond 18 yrs. is an integral part of our long term care program for children entrusted in our care. We have a three tier care and support program for our youth:
The 1st stage (Arunodaya) – yrs.
The 2nd Stage (Sopan) – yrs.
The 3rd Stage (Ghronda) yrs.-three year support program .
The Youth care program key features:
Youth Development programes
MIMN Test
Child protection and cyber safety modules
Soft skill development programmes
PYD ( Positive Youth Development) Activities
Listening to youth exercise
Social skill Assessment
Settled youth Quality settlement Assessment – on–going

8. The Youth after care program ensures :
Vocational skills for all through government recognized courses
English speaking skills
IT Skills
100% employment for our youth

9. Snap shot of couses taken up by Children after school in 2014
In about 220 children took up the following courses :
31-Managemen t teaching
28-Commerce Agriculture
28-nursing Law
25-Hotel management Engeeneering
23- Social work paramedics
8-physical education computer
7-Humanities design
6-Mass media Fine arts

10. Impact
Pioneered the SOS care model in the country by providing a nurturing environment to children without families .
Through this programme more than 4,500 youth have been settled till date . They are now independent and self reliant in professions such as medicine, journalism, aviation, army , teaching etc.
( We have documented Success stories of our settled children)
Currently more than 6,600 children growing up in 440 SOS families in 32 children’s Villages and 32 youth homes( after care programs) across the country

11. THANK YOU